Video Resources
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- Developing a Quantitative Research Plan: Research Questions
This video discusses how one should go about choosing research questions that reflect the design that one chooses and variables that are going to be studied.
Relevant Learning Objective: LO 3-1; Identify and appropriately focus the scope of a research problem or topic; LO 3-4; Translate a research problem statement into a guiding research questions, following guidelines for both qualitative and quantitative research questions
- How to Create a Research Question
This video explains how to create a research question. The video develops an example of a research question by looking at residential design and then breaking this down into subcategories.
LO 3-1; Identify and appropriately focus the scope of a research problem or topic
- How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries
Adam Savage walks through two spectacular examples of profound scientific discoveries that came from simple, creative methods anyone could have followed — Eratosthenes' calculation of the Earth's circumference around 200 BC and Hippolyte Fizeau's measurement of the speed of light in 1849.
Relevant Learning Objective: LO 3-4; Translate a research problem statement into a guiding research questions, following guidelines for both qualitative and quantitative research questions